Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 79 64
Rank change year-on-year -47 -15 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,404 1,530 3,645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 3.61% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.89% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 968 1,060 2,755
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,110 39,339 81,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.81% 92.87% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,656 22,592 59,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -37 1,277 £77,500 +3.33% 495
London +3 680 £88,750 +4.41% 240
Work from Home -23 609 £70,000 -2.77% 333
UK excluding London -101 603 £67,500 -3.57% 334
North of England -26 282 £69,310 -3.72% 87
North West -28 136 £70,000 -3.45% 57
South East -113 127 £72,500 +7.41% 123
Yorkshire -51 97 £69,310 -4.06% 11
Midlands -67 58 £67,500 +3.85% 35
South West -88 57 £60,000 -12.44% 39
North East -2 49 £65,000 +30.00% 19
East of England -10 41 £60,100 +4.52% 27
West Midlands -50 35 £72,500 +3.57% 17
Scotland -77 31 £60,000 -20.00% 10
East Midlands -63 22 £67,000 +5.10% 18
Wales -33 9 £53,171 -20.64% 7
Northern Ireland -36 7 £62,500 +13.64% 9
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.28%) Confluence
3 17 (1.21%) Apache
4 16 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 14 (1.00%) IIS
7 13 (0.93%) JBoss
7 13 (0.93%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.64%) CMS
9 8 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.28%) Appian
11 4 (0.28%) Camunda
11 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.21%) Liferay
12 3 (0.21%) nginx
12 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.50%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.071%) Actimize
6 1 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.071%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.071%) Quorum
6 1 (0.071%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.071%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.071%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 764 (54.42%) AWS
2 585 (41.67%) Azure
3 301 (21.44%) GCP
4 240 (17.09%) Serverless
5 149 (10.61%) SaaS
6 121 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
7 120 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (8.33%) GitHub
9 108 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 84 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
11 80 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 74 (5.27%) Amazon SQS
13 68 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
14 58 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
15 55 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 55 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
16 47 (3.35%) OpenShift
17 44 (3.13%) Datadog
17 44 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
18 42 (2.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.63%) Broadband
2 14 (1.00%) Network Security
3 13 (0.93%) HTTP
4 9 (0.64%) DNS
5 7 (0.50%) AMQP
5 7 (0.50%) Firewall
5 7 (0.50%) Internet
6 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.43%) VPN
7 5 (0.36%) DHCP
7 5 (0.36%) MQTT
7 5 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.28%) LTE
8 4 (0.28%) SNMP
8 4 (0.28%) WAN
9 3 (0.21%) Modbus
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (13.53%) NoSQL
2 178 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
3 137 (9.76%) MongoDB
4 100 (7.12%) SQL Server
5 70 (4.99%) MySQL
6 65 (4.63%) DynamoDB
7 61 (4.34%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (2.56%) BigQuery
10 36 (2.56%) Redis
11 27 (1.92%) Big Data
12 21 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (1.50%) RDBMS
13 16 (1.14%) Pinecone
14 14 (1.00%) Power BI
15 12 (0.85%) DB2
16 11 (0.78%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.64%) Tableau
18 7 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 185 (13.18%) Git
2 128 (9.12%) Jenkins
3 117 (8.33%) GitLab
4 51 (3.63%) JIRA
5 50 (3.56%) TeamCity
6 39 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 34 (2.42%) JUnit
8 32 (2.28%) CircleCI
9 31 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.92%) Selenium
11 20 (1.42%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.28%) Maven
12 18 (1.28%) Mockito
13 17 (1.21%) Vite
14 15 (1.07%) Claude Code
15 14 (1.00%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.57%) JMeter
16 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (0.57%) Postman
16 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 407 (28.99%) Finance
2 331 (23.58%) Social Skills
3 154 (10.97%) Banking
4 112 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.70%) Law
6 89 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (4.91%) Retail
8 68 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (3.63%) Telecoms
10 47 (3.35%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.64%) Back Office
12 22 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.42%) Advertising
14 19 (1.35%) Legal
15 18 (1.28%) Billing
16 15 (1.07%) Marketing
17 13 (0.93%) Games
18 12 (0.85%) Front Office
18 12 (0.85%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 473 (33.69%) Developer
2 384 (27.35%) Senior
3 274 (19.52%) Software Engineer
4 212 (15.10%) Architect
5 185 (13.18%) Lead
6 121 (8.62%) Senior Developer
7 115 (8.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 108 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 95 (6.77%) Java Engineer
10 93 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 90 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
12 71 (5.06%) .NET Developer
13 58 (4.13%) Software Developer
14 56 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 53 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
15 53 (3.77%) Lead Developer
16 43 (3.06%) Java Software Engineer
17 42 (2.99%) C# Developer
17 42 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (22.58%) React
2 284 (20.23%) .NET
3 281 (20.01%) RESTful
4 234 (16.67%) Node.js
5 217 (15.46%) Spring
6 211 (15.03%) REST
7 196 (13.96%) Spring Boot
8 175 (12.46%) Kafka
9 109 (7.76%) AngularJS
10 92 (6.55%) gRPC
11 80 (5.70%) .NET Core
12 78 (5.56%) HTML
13 70 (4.99%) CSS
14 67 (4.77%) RabbitMQ
15 64 (4.56%) Vue
16 61 (4.34%) .NET Framework
17 56 (3.99%) ASP.NET
17 56 (3.99%) OAuth
18 53 (3.77%) Django
18 53 (3.77%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 404 (28.77%) Cloud Native
2 248 (17.66%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 89 (6.34%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
6 59 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.21%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.21%) Video\Live Streaming
8 40 (2.85%) Algorithms
9 38 (2.71%) Data Structures
10 30 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
11 25 (1.78%) Blockchain
11 25 (1.78%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.71%) AI Agents
13 21 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
13 21 (1.50%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 16 (1.14%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.14%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 71 (5.06%) Linux
2 41 (2.92%) Windows
3 20 (1.42%) Unix
4 16 (1.14%) Android
5 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.36%) CentOS
6 5 (0.36%) Debian
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.071%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (49.22%) CI/CD
2 555 (39.53%) Agile
3 544 (38.75%) DevOps
4 522 (37.18%) Software Engineering
5 393 (27.99%) Containerisation
6 318 (22.65%) Full-Stack Development
7 306 (21.79%) Mentoring
8 293 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
9 286 (20.37%) Event-Driven
10 279 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 277 (19.73%) Test Automation
12 261 (18.59%) AI
13 231 (16.45%) Infrastructure as Code
14 185 (13.18%) Computer Science
15 170 (12.11%) Scrum
16 168 (11.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 157 (11.18%) Coaching
18 156 (11.11%) Clean Code
18 156 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
19 153 (10.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 452 (32.19%) Java
2 393 (27.99%) Python
3 287 (20.44%) SQL
4 263 (18.73%) JavaScript
5 248 (17.66%) C#
6 220 (15.67%) TypeScript
7 137 (9.76%) Go
8 51 (3.63%) Scala
9 44 (3.13%) PHP
10 43 (3.06%) C++
11 37 (2.64%) Bash
12 34 (2.42%) C
13 30 (2.14%) Ruby
14 22 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 20 (1.42%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.21%) PowerShell
17 16 (1.14%) Shell Script
18 15 (1.07%) Rust
19 10 (0.71%) Groovy
20 9 (0.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 194 (13.82%) Degree
2 138 (9.83%) Security Cleared
3 112 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 90 (6.41%) SC Cleared
5 57 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.28%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 23 (1.64%) CISSP
11 22 (1.57%) DV Cleared
11 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (0.93%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.85%) CISM
15 8 (0.57%) PhD
16 7 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.41%) QA
2 31 (2.21%) GDPR
3 29 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 21 (1.50%) NIST
6 16 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.71%) NCSC
9 9 (0.64%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.43%) IFRS
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) WCAG
12 4 (0.28%) SLA
13 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) SEPA
14 1 (0.071%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 427 (30.41%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 446 (31.77%) Kubernetes
2 265 (18.87%) Terraform
3 83 (5.91%) Grafana
4 78 (5.56%) Ansible
5 41 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.14%) Argo
7 18 (1.28%) Kibana
7 18 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.64%) HP Fortify
9 7 (0.50%) Cilium
10 6 (0.43%) Puppet
11 4 (0.28%) Istio
11 4 (0.28%) Packer
11 4 (0.28%) Rancher
12 3 (0.21%) Nagios
13 2 (0.14%) MIIS
13 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 124 (8.83%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.70%) Google
3 51 (3.63%) Oracle
4 45 (3.21%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 15 (1.07%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.07%) IBM
6 15 (1.07%) Red Hat
6 15 (1.07%) SAP
7 14 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 13 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 12 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
10 10 (0.71%) Cisco
10 10 (0.71%) Databricks
11 9 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.64%) Splunk
12 8 (0.57%) Adobe
13 7 (0.50%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.50%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.50%) Software AG